The Florentine Diamond, long thought lost, has finally resurfaced. Turns out, the historic gem was never missing, but locked away in a bank vault in Canada since World War II, according to a November ...

The suitcase contained the private jewelry collection of the Habsburg family, including a remarkable pale-yellow diamond ...

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The Florentine Diamond, a famed 137 ct. yellow pear-shape long considered lost, has resurfaced after apparently spending decades in a Quebec bank vault, according to a report in The New York Times.

The woman in the painting looks back at us with a smile that never quite settles. It is neither cheerful nor cold, neither welcoming nor distant. For more than five centuries, viewers have leaned ...

In the late 1540s, an aging Michelangelo embarked on what he intended to be his culminating sculptural work, commonly known as the Florentine Pietà. Still heavily tasked with official ...

“He lived in a haphazard fashion,” wrote Italian Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari in his biography of 15th-century Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli. “As was his wont.” Whether or not this ...